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December 19, 2016
You never see pictures of armed males in eastern Aleppo, just beautifully composed photographs of handsome young unarmed men lifting wounded children from the rubble, with the light just right.
In the past few days we have been bombarded with colourful reports of events in eastern Aleppo, written or transmitted by people in Beirut (180 miles away and in another country), or even London (2,105 miles away and in another world).There have, we are told, been massacres of women and children, people have been burned alive. The sources for these reports are so-called ‘activists’. Who are they? As far as I know, there was not one single staff reporter for any Western news organisation in eastern Aleppo last week. Not one. THIS is for the very good reason that they would have been kidnapped and probably murdered. The zone was ruled without mercy by heavily armed Osama Bin Laden sympathizers, who were bombarding the west of the city with powerful artillery (they frequently killed innocent civilians and struck hospitals, since you ask). PETER HITCHENS: Amid the bombs of Aleppo, all you can hear are the lies
Posted by gerardvanderleun at December 19, 2016 11:50 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Fake News, like most *news* these days.
Posted by: ghostsniper at December 19, 2016 2:56 PM
Never again? -- fake news and views.
Ever again? -- you betcha.
If not the kulaks, Roma, Jews, southeast Asian innocents, middle-eastern Christians, Yazidis, ... we would have to maim and kill ourselves. Oops! Did I spill the beans?
Posted by: Howard Nelson at December 19, 2016 6:31 PM
"Curtis LeMay please pick up the red courtesy telephone. Will General Curtis LeMay please pick up the red courtesy telephone."
Posted by: Scott M at December 20, 2016 9:36 PM